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A concise narrative and analysis of how a Norman duke claimed and ultimately seized the English crown, explaining earlier ties between the two peoples, the duke's rise and rivalry with competing claimants, the invasion and decisive battle, and the military and administrative measures by which he consolidated control. The work combines chronological storytelling with discussion of legal claims, land redistribution, governance, subsequent campaigns, and the longer-term social and institutional changes that followed the conquest.
I have here told, in the shape of a primer, the same tale which I have already told in five large volumes. I have only to say that, though the tale told is the same, yet the little book is not an abridgement of the large one, but strictly the same tale told afresh. I shall be well pleased if I am able some day to tell the same tale on a third and intermediate scale.
Somerleaze, Wells,
June 5, 1880.